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Hire Dr. Kristen B.

United States

Aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, and scientific/technical writing and editing (any field)

Profile Summary

I am an aquatic ecologist currently working in university administration. However, I love science and like to stay involved in the field. My expertise is in the carbon cycling of freshwaters. I have published on CO2 and CH4 production, consumption, and emissions from lakes and streams. I have ongoing projects concerning DOC export and stream metabolism in intermittent/non-perennial streams as well. I have also been a technical writer for the United States Department of Agriculture and worked in academic publishing.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Biogeochemistry
• ★ Aquatic Ecology
• ★ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Earth & Atmospheric Science
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ R
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ SOP & Protocol Writing
• ☆ White Papers
• ☆ Textbook Content Writing
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Copywriting
• ☆ Emails & Newsletters
• ☆ Marketing Copy
• ☆ Social Media Copy
• ☆ Web Copy
• ☆ Blog Posts

Services

• Writing
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Cleaning

Work Experience

Program Coordinator

Iowa State University

- Present

Process Editor

North Carolina State University

- Present

Project Lead

LMI

- Present

Education

MS (Environmental Sciences and Engineering)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

- Present

BA (Biology)

Wake Forest University

- Present

PhD (Biological Sciences)

Virginia Tech

August 2018 - May 2023

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Kristen A. Bretz, Alexis R. Jackson, Sumaiya Rahman, Jonathon M. Monroe, Erin R. Hotchkiss (2021). Integrating Ecosystem Patch Contributions to Stream Corridor Carbon Dioxide and Methane Fluxes . Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Vasiliy Lakoba and Lauren Wind and Stephen DeVilbiss and Mary Lofton and Kristen Bretz and Alaina Weinheimer and Chloe Moore and Colin Baciocco and Erin Hotchkiss and W. Cully Hession(2021). Salt Dilution and Flushing Dynamics of an Impaired Agricultural–Urban Stream . ACS ES&T Water. 1. (2). p. 407--416. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Kristen A. Bretz & Stephen C. Whalen (2014) Methane cycling dynamics in sediments of Alaskan Arctic Foothill lakes, Inland Waters, 4:1, 65-78, DOI: 10.5268/IW-4.1.637 .